I'm going to show you how great I am.

Yes, let's have fighting a fellow.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action

that crowd funds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition

from pre-existing states.

Hello and welcome to how to tech over the world. This is Ben Wilson. That was a passage from the network state by Bologi Shrini Vossin. Today I am doing something a little bit different for this episode. I don't always read biographies.

And so while I am finishing the video editing for my upcoming episode on Arnold Schwarzenegger. I thought I would do a mini episode

on something else that I have been reading recently, and that is this, this book, The Network

State, Bybology, Shreeny Vossin. Like I said, not a biography, but I do think it will have

some relevance for this audience. It's subtitled How to Start a New Country. And so I thought it

might have relevance for you, because if you are the kind of person who is interested in a podcast called How to Take Over the World, you might also be interested in this idea of starting your own country.

Those are both very large, ambitious ideas that I think attract the same sort of thinking.

Additionally, I think there is some crossover with many of the biographies

that we have covered on this show. And that is because great minds are often drawn towards creating

their own space, whether that is a city or a country or something like that. I mean, the classic

example to me is Disney with Epcot. So Epcot originally

was not supposed to be an amusement park like it is today. Epcot stands for experimental

prototype community of tomorrow. And it was explicitly supposed to be a futuristic city,

not an amusement park. It's supposed to have new futuristic forms of transportation,

communication, working, eating, and everything. You know, Walt Disney was really obsessed with

this idea of creating a new city, like an actual city that people lived in. That's what

Epcot was supposed to be. And unfortunately, he died during its creation. And so people following Walt Disney did not

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